The Bat Segundo Show: Brent Spiner : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
"Brent Spiner appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #233. Spiner is most recently a producer and performer on the album, Dreamland." You might remember Spiner as Potata on the hit syndicated series, "Car Wreck."
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? – O'Reilly Radar
"Now [...]
Monday 28 August 1665 (Pepys' Diary) — The plague worsens
"Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith’s, having not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world."
The Glass Menage a Trois (Adventures in Bookselling, [...]
Two Readings/Book-Signings at New Dominion Bookshop:
Friday, September 12 at 5:30 PM: Tony Williams, Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Saturday, September 13 at 11:00 AM: Lisa Russ Spaar, Satin Cash: Poems
New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing
by Tony Williams who will present [...]
O'Reilly on Amazon/Shelfari: Web 2.0 Consolidation Begins – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
"What if all the other social networks dedicated to books banded together and let their users communicate with each other over the fence, as it were?" Heaven on earth, as it were.
Language Log » Moist aversion: the cartoon version
"Rob Harrell's Big Top comic takes on word [...]
September BookBalloon reading club selection:
Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers
This delightful “whodunit” unfolds at the all-female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. It features Harriet Vane, a returned alumna and mystery writer and Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective and sometime boyfriend of Ms. Vane.
Discussion begins Sept. 8!
If you’re already a registered member, click on the September discussion [...]
Maud Newton: Blog
“For the seven others out there who might have interest in collecting fragments of one of the great epic poems of the English language in 1-2 small shards a day: here’s my Twittered Paradise Lost.” –Count me in! You can follow too, at http://twitter.com/paradiselost
Storyglossia: Storyglossia Issue 29 has Published
Editor Steven J. McDermott: “I’ve [...]
Summer Reading Series: Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan
Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan presented an evening of poetry and letterpress at WriterHouse on Wednesday, August 20, 2008. Kevin McFadden is the author of Hardscrabble, an inaugural selection of the VQR Poetry series. Originally from the Cleveland area, he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the [...]
Tim at LibraryThing contemplates the future, now that Amazon has acquired Shelfari:
Any any case, once the Amazon/Shelfari deal goes through, we are competing against Amazon.
The second element, as many also know, is that Amazon recently announced its intention to acquire Abebooks, the Canadian used-books aggregator that owns 40% of LibraryThing. The acquisiton will take place [...]
Tod Goldberg: These Are Field Recordings
Actual transcripts of conversations with "fans." Funny, yet depressing.
Textorizer II
"Texturizer II is a tool that takes a picture, and creates another picture that looks like the original one but made by writing text." Via Book of Joe.
paperpools: post-Socratics
The difficulty of responding to critics: DeWitt vs. Mason.
Renaissance paintings were the blockbusters of their days. Inclusion in a great work of art meant fame and immortality for the subjects. But really, given the option, don’t you think most of these subjects would prefer to be in motion pictures instead? Well, it doesn’t matter what you think, because that’s the premise we’re going [...]